The cord is long enough. the only thing was the packaging. It was one of those crappy plastic blister packs that you must have a razor blade to open.

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I have to start by saying I really want to Love this book. Who wouldn’t want what this book promises? Work only 4 hours a week, Travel the World, and Live in luxury.

I have only made it to chapter 4 and I am having some reservations about this book. I am hoping he starts addressing my doubts soon. This is not going to be something everybody can do.

I will say that I am glad he doesn’t spend half the book trying to sell me on his Idea like a lot of other books do. His writing style is very direct and he is good a communicating his point.

So far the book is about Setting Dreams and cutting things out that waste your time. I can see his point on a lot of this, but I think you have to take it with a grain of salt. Many times I feel he is teaching or going to teach you how to be an Asshole and How to cheat your employer. Everything is this world is a matter of perspective and I can see what he is saying, but I am not sure I can feel good about doing it. For example: He explains How he won his fighting title. It was by exploiting the rules. And how he harassed his teachers to give him better grades in school. What he did was legally right, but dosen’t mean it was ethically right.

I will work on finishing his book and then apply some of his rules, but if I were to follow his rules I wouldn’t be blogging or reading any blogs.

I will keep You posted.

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As I recently posted in one of the comments, I just got back from a week in Vegas Baby!!!! I found a great deal on Luxor’s website directly. $89.00 bucks a night for 5 nights. Wow, that is a great deal for a Major Hotel in Vegas…. It is break time, ill finish this later.

I know I haven’t finished this post, but I did what to put some more notes about it before I forget.

The Luxor sent to a customer satisfaction survey and I can tell you I went to town on them. Then, I didn’t hear from them for over a month. Then they offered me a free night stay, You can see the email chain below.

Dear Mr. Pereda,

Thank you for your response to our on-line survey regarding your recent stay at the Luxor through our website. We truly appreciate you taking your time to provide us with this valuable feedback and share your experience with us.

We would love the opportunity to restore your faith in us. We would like to invite you to return to our hotel for a total of a (1) one-night complimentary stay in one of our Deluxe Tower accommodations. This offer excludes holidays and special events and is based upon availability.

Please confirm the address we have on file so that we can send a follow-up letter restating this offer. This offer will not be considered valid without a reply.

Again, thank you for your valuable feedback and we look forward seeing you again soon.

Sincerely,

Michelle

Mrs.

I am not going to stay or your hotel unless you FIX your issues. I
cannot believe How poorly your hotel is run. It took you over a month
to reply to my complaints. This shows me that your hotel management is
still very poor and lacking.

Dear Mr. Pereda,

Anytime we received feedback, either in the form of a survey, guest
letter, or email, we always pass it along to the department heads of the
areas responsible for the problems our guests experienced.

As for the delay in responding to your issues, currently I am the only
person at this property who handles all the surveys, correspondence,
etc. and I was out of the office for three weeks in March-April tending
to a family emergency. I assure you, the Luxor takes the feedback from
its guest very seriously and that these issues are brought to the
appropriate personnel’s attention.

I will send you the letter reconfirming the offer of (1) one
complimentary night in case you change your mind and choose to give us
another try.

Sincerely,
Michelle

Michelle,

I am sorry you are the only one that is dealing with the CSAT surveys.
It must be a very horrible and stressful job. The fact that the
Luxor /MGM management only assigns one person to deal with them just
shows further proof that your management is not committed to making
any changes or improving customer satisfaction.

Best Of Luck
You will find full reviews of my stay on www.danpereda.com and
tripadvisor and virtualtourist.

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so far I can say I don’t really like vista, the specs on this laptop is the same as my dell laptop running XP and the XP machine seems much better. That is for some other post.

I open my new Vista machine and I installed MSN live messenger. I put in my username and password and I get a message saying that windows has to close messenger due to a DEP error. “Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is a security feature that helps prevent damage from viruses and other security threats by monitoring your programs to make sure they use system memory safely.”

I tried a dozen different things to fix this problem. Then I read to try installing an old version of messenger. I went and found Messenger version 6. Installed that fine then it told me I had to upgrade. I upgraded to 7.0 and messenger finally works now.

UPDATE: I upgraded to Messenger 8 and the DEP error came back again. Acer now has a patch on their website to fix this. I hate Vista. OK all; sorry for the delay I was on vacation in Vegas. Keep an EYE out for those post coming up.

Here is the link to the Bug report on Acer’s web site – Here

Here is the link to download the patch — Here

File transfer with vista is really slow

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I am going to leave the Synopsis to Amazon and just give you my feelings on this novel.

I really had mixed feelings about this book. I love the Harry potter series and J.K. Rowling’s ability to immerse the reader in to this fantasy world and this book is no different. This book still had me laughing, blushing and screaming out loud with the characters. I really felt I was there along for the ride with them. This book was different in that it is the first HP book that I wasn’t saying that it was great and I love every minute of it. While I was reading it I was really enjoying it and I kept wanting to finish it. As I look back, I attribute this to Rowling’s great writing, but this book really doesn’t convey much to the potter story line. I feel that this book was more aimed at Rowling’s younger readers as the bulk of the book is about a tyrant of a teacher named Dolores Umbridge. We can all identify with this, but it really doesn’t move the story along. When you do reach the end that was climatic you are eagar to find out what this has all been about and I was disappointed to learn it really is just some of the back story as to why Potter is the “The Boy Who Lived”

In the end the story does progress slightly and I was anxiously waiting to read the next book Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Some of the story line does relate to the Half blood prince but not much. I can only hope that more from this book contributes to the 7th and Final book due out this year.

If you haven’t read the rest of the Harry Potter books I encourage you read them. They are great and way better than the Movies.

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So why do I do reviews? There is one selfish reason I do reviews. If you you’re your going experience something that you later know you will have to write or explain you tend to pay more attention. You notice more, the subtle details and nuances. This makes my experience richer and more enjoyable.

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DanPereda.com – This is will be my personal site. It will be my personal Blog and Also a platform for my writing.

Shoreperformance.com – This site will be revamped to become the front face of my business again. Right now the front end is just my blog and the back end runs some major surveys and data recording.

Phonefuse.com – This site will be my test platform to work of some new Asterisk PBX goodies. It will also replace the back end for the Voipfordummies.com site that I currently own, but I am being forced to transfer it to Wiley Press.

Voipfordummies.com – This site is being eliminated and transferred to Wiley Press (the people that own the for dummies trademark)

Pereda.org – I hope to work more on this site and get it to become the family website that I had always meant for it to become.

TheMillionaireSociety.com – This is my Prosper group. I have not had time to really open this site or even start my group.

ReelSpicy.com – This was the name of my boat, but I no longer have the boat. I will come up with something to put here. till then I will just point it to one of my other sites.

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It has become the defacto book for job hunters and career changers. It is updated and republished every year. I half read the a copy in 2001ish. I was desperate for a Job at that time and ironically thought I didn’t have time to read it, I was to busy looking for a job in a terrible job market. I found a job eventually, but I had to struggle thru a few I didn’t really like before I found one that I did.

I have been at my current company for 3 years now. I really like my Company and my job. I get to travel all over the world setting up and managing call centers. I am always seeing cool places and doing unbelievable things, but the stress and working hours are getting to me. I look forward to settling down, buy a house, and starting a family. These things are not currently in line with my job. My job may change and allow me to have a home again, but that is not guarantee. I am now starting my back up plan.

I have picked up the latest copy of WCIYP? 2007. I have just started reading it and I plan to put thoughts and reviews of the book here online. There are many tasks that must be done in the book and i will also share them online.

I will also share what I have learned about the job market, working, traveling, and the world.

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Exam code: 640-801

Or 640-811 CCNA ICND and 640-821 CCNA INTRO

Passing Score is 849/1000

No of question: 53 – 56

Time Duration: 90 Mins

Cost: $150.00

Valid for :3 Years

CCNP- Cisco Certified Network Professional (4 test 60-70 questions)

1) 642-801 BSCI “routing” – Building Scaleable Cisco Inter-networks

2) 642-811 BCMSN “switching” – Building Cisco multi layered switched networks

3) 642-811 Building Cisco Remote access networks

4) 642-821 Cisco inter-network troubleshooting

CCDP- Cisco Certified Design Professional (3 test)

1) 642-801 BSCI “routing” – Building Scaleable Cisco Inter-networks

2) 642-811 BCMSN “switching” – Building Cisco multi layered switched networks

3) 642-871 ARCH “Architecture”

More…

CCSP- Cisco Certified Security Professional (5 test)

1) 642-551 SNDI – Securing Cisco networking devices

2) 642-502 SNRS – Securing networks with routers and switches

3) 642-522 SNPA- Securing Networks with PIX and ASA

4) 642-532 IPS – Implementing Intrusion Protection Systems

5) 643-513 HIPS – Securing Hosts using Cisco security agents
or CSVPN – Cisco secure VPN

CCIP (4 test)

1) BSCI

2) BGP

3) QOS

4) IPV6

CCVP (3 test)

1) QOS

2) IPTT

3) IP telephone

a. Part 1

b. Part 2

Recommend CCNA Books

CCNA 640-801 Study Guide by Todd Lamele (CCNP) published Sybex

CCNA –ICND by Wendell Odem (CCIE) Published by Cisco Press

CCNA –INTRO by Wendell Odem (CCIE) Published by Cisco Press

Course Outline

22 Case studies

1) Hardware

2) Networking

3) TCP/IP – Ip classes and sub netting

4) OSI

5) Routing Logic

6) CLI

7) Routing Protocols
WAN

9) NAT

10) Switching

11) ISDN

12) Booting

13) Access List

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